CMU MLT(LTI MS), VT/UCMerced/UMass CS PhD - 留學

[Program]

2018 Fall -- CS PhD


[Research Area]

Natural Language Processing
Machine Learning
Computer Vision


[Admissions]

CMU MLT(LTI MS) (2/6, no interview, 可能有 funding 但不保證)
VT CE PhD (2/9, interview, w/ funding)
UC Merced EECS PhD (2/13, interview, w/ funding)
UMass CS PhD (4/3, no interview, w/ funding)


[Rejections]

Stanford CS PhD (2/8, interview @ 1/26)
Cornell CS PhD (2/8)
CMU MLD PhD (2/15)
Harvard CS PhD (2/16)
CMU RI PhD (2/19)
MIT EECS PhD (3/2)
UC Berkeley CS PhD (3/5)
UCSD CSE PhD (4/7)
UMich CSE PhD (4/9)
NYU DS PhD (4/12)
USC CS PhD (4/21)
UC Irvine CS PhD (5/4)


[Education]

M.S. in CSIE, NTU, 2013-2015
GPA: 4.30 / 4.30
Rank: 1 / 131

B.S. in CS, NCTU, 2009-2013
GPA: 4.26 / 4.30 (CS major: 4.29 / 4.30)
Points: 96.58 / 100 (CS major: 98.40 / 100)
Rank: 1 / 44


[Test Scores]

GRE
(2017/11/28) 330 V160 Q170 AW3.5

#1QWQPKUc (GRE)


TOEFL
(2017/11/18) 107 R30 L30 S22 W25

#1QF40Fxq (TOEFL_iBT)


[Publications]

1 * 1st author, AAAI 2018
1 * 1st author, COLING 2016
1 * 2nd author, workshop at SIGIR 2014


[Honors]

中華民國計算語言學學會(ACLCLP)碩士論文佳作
IBM Master the Mainframe World Championship
Phi Tau Phi (NCTU)
ACM ICPC Kaohsiung Regional 16th
NCTU Presidential Awards * 7


[Work Experience]

ML Scientist at AI Startup in Taipei
SWE Intern at Microsoft in Bellevue
SWE Intern at IBM in Taipei
SWE Intern at Google in Taipei


[Teaching Experience]

TA, Natural Language Processing
TA, Compiler Design (優良助教)


[Letters of Recommendation]

碩士班指導教授
工作主管
其中一篇論文合作的指導教授


[心得]

當初是一邊工作一邊申請，實在是很累，

一度想要放棄申請，先去當研究助理之後再說。

最後想不開還是咬牙申請下去

從 TOEFL 和 GRE 的考試日期可以大概看出我很晚才下決定 XD

因為時程緊湊，所以像是 SOP 之類的也只給朋友看一下，沒有專業編修。

選校也是事到臨頭才去看的，

所以大概也沒特別值得分享的地方。

建議要申請學校還是提早做準備比較好 QQ~

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